{"id":1468048,"date":"2022-05-08T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468048"},"modified":"2022-05-08T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T13:44:49","slug":"cia-chief-putin-thinks-he-cant-afford-to-lose-in-ukraine-could-soon-double-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-chief-putin-thinks-he-cant-afford-to-lose-in-ukraine-could-soon-double-down\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Chief: Putin Thinks He \u201cCan\u2019t Afford to Lose\u201d in Ukraine, Could Soon Double Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcia-chief-putin-thinks-he-cant-afford-to-lose-in-ukraine-could-soon-double-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian <\/a>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/personalities\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> could soon be &#8220;doubling down&#8221; in an attempt to emerge victorious in Ukraine despite the death of over 25,000 Russian soldiers and mounting economic sanctions by the international community, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/topics\/cia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Intelligence Agency <\/a>Director William Burns announced Saturday that Putin is optimistic about the war\u2019s outcome despite historic losses and failed attempts to capture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s capital of Kyiv.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s in a frame of mind in which he doesn&#8217;t believe he can afford to lose,&#8221; Burns said during a Financial Times event in Washington, Reuters reported. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s convinced right now that doubling down still will enable him to make progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/russia-moves-combat-forces-to-mariupol-ahead-of-its-victory-day-officials-work-to-rescue-troops-trapped-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RUSSIA MOVES FORCES TO MARIUPOL AHEAD OF &#8216;VICTORY DAY&#8217; PARADE, OFFICIALS WORK TO RESCUE TRAPPED TROOPS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While military experts thought the war could have swiftly ended, Ukraine\u2019s spirit remains unbroken despite more than 70 days of combat and Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> has won over the help of countries around the world, helping his country\u2019s chances in the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/640\/320\/Russian-President-Vladimir-Putin.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The CIA director also said a potential loss would have devastating effects on Putin &#8220;because he staked so much on the choices that he made to launch this invasion,&#8221; AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/mariupol-steel-plant-all-women-children-elderly-evacuated-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MARIUPOL STEEL PLANT: ALL WOMEN, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY EVACUATED, OFFICIAL SAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burns said he did not think Russia would pursue using nuclear weapons to win the war and clarified that Western intelligence efforts did not see any sign of Putin deploying them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/AP22125639092648.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People&#039;s Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo)<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/disasters\/nuclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nuclear<\/a> weapons,&#8221; Burns said, as AFP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220507-putin-doesn-t-believe-he-can-afford-to-lose-in-ukraine-cia-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/russia-victory-day-may-9-parades-moscow-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>RUSSIA REVEALS MASSIVE SCOPE OF MAY 9 MILITARY PARADES AS WAR IN UKRAINE RAGES ON<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said intelligence services would &#8220;not take lightly those possibilities&#8221; and that the CIA would remain diligent in surveilling Russia\u2019s interest in using nukes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/putin-believes-doubling-down-will-improve-ukraine-war-outcome-cia-director-says-2022-05-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we stay very sharply focused as an intelligence service &#8230; on those possibilities at a moment when the stakes are very high for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/putin-roscosmos.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Roscosmos space agency employees at a rocket assembly factory during his visit to the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region Tsiolkovsky , Russia, Tuesday, April 12, 2022.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Roscosmos space agency employees at a rocket assembly factory during his visit to the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region Tsiolkovsky , Russia, Tuesday, April 12, 2022.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Evgeny Biyatov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burns also discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a> and its government\u2019s aspirations for acquiring Taiwan \u2014 the interest which has grown since China has watched Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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